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In 2000, Al Gore manages to carry his home state of Tennessee, thus winning the election; if you’d rather, in 1978, a booze and cocaine-addled George W. Bush is found with a dead stripper in an Odessa motel room. In either instance, there is no U.S. invasion of Iraq. Instead, Saddam Hussein succumbs to a massive heart attack in 2004. Iraq’s ruling regime rapidly disintegrates, as the military realizes it can follow neither of Saddam’s lunatic sons. Instead, Iran, recognizing the opportunity to humble a historic enemy, uses the Quds Force to bring heavy weapons into Baghad’s Shiite slums. A bitter civil war erupts, with the nation divided (as today) between warring Sunni and Shiite factions. Saudi, really unhappy with an Iraninan proxy on its northern frontier, arms Sunni groups, including some virulent Wahhabists, who use the dream of a pan-Arab caliphate dominated by radical Sunnis, to mobilize, and bring fighters from abroad. They are matched by Iranian proxies Hezbollah, recruiting from the fertile ground of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iraq descends into chaos, presaging the post-Arab Spring Yemen, Libya and Syria.
All hell breaks lose, with a refugee crisis an order of magnitude worse than today’s. Al-Quaeda is eclipsed by even more virulent successor organization.

Given that environment, would an IS-lookalike still stage Parisian attacks today? I’d say the odds are rather good. from FacebookDenver News